Armbian 23.11.1 `Cannot read properties of null (reading 'destroy')`

[dzianisv]

I tried to run an example from the readme.md in this repo

user@orangepipc:~/wakeword$ node wake.js
/home/user/wakeword/node_modules/@mathquis/node-personal-wakeword/src/detector.js:253
    this._vad.destroy()
              ^

TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'destroy')
    at WakewordDetector.destroy (/home/user/wakeword/node_modules/@mathquis/node-personal-wakeword/src/detector.js:253:15)
    at Timeout._onTimeout (/home/user/wakeword/wake.js:125:14)
    at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:569:17)
    at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:512:7)

Node.js v18.19.0

user@orangepipc:~/wakeword$ cat /etc/issue
Armbian 23.11.1 Bookworm \l 

user@orangepipc:~/wakeword$ uname -an
Linux orangepipc 6.1.63-current-sunxi #1 SMP Mon Nov 20 10:52:19 UTC 2023 armv7l GNU/Linux

any ideas?